September  7, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.”  

Lisa Kirk, 

New York Journal American, 

March 9, 1954

SEPTEMBER  RAIN

The wash of rain - cleaning the dust

off my blue car - clearing the sidewalk -

soaking the grass and the brown fields -

great sound on the porch and the patter

on leaves - seeing the defiance of grey

gravestones - hearing the musical swish -

the back and forth of windshield wipers -

appreciating living in the northeast -

knowing those in the southwest who

once lived in the northeast - miss their

roots and the fall of rain - on so many

a September day till the dislike of cold rain -

but like many things in life, that’s not yet.

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

September  6, 2019

Thought for today: 

“I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.” 

Katherine Mansfield’s last words.

September 5, 2019

POCKET  CHANGE 

Three dimes, two nickels,

a quarter and some pennies:

loose change in my pocket....

That’s how I treat some  people

in my life, loose change, present,

but just there - lumped together....

Not important - and sometimes

given away to the poor beggar

or the guitar player on the corner....

Then there is my wallet with my credit

cards, a few Andrew Jackson's - and

my medical and identity cards: ME.

© Andy Costello, 

Reflections 2019

September  5, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.”  

Gail Lumet Buckley, “The Hornes:

An American Family, Knopf, 1986

September 4, 2019

GNAW

“Gnaw”:  now that’s an interesting verb

and word. Its meaning never gnawing me.

I haven’t ignored it. In fact, I never used it.

But now that I heard it used - I’ve been

asking myself, “Is there anything or

anyone biting and chewing and gnawing

me - like a dog with a bone or - like a

lion gnawing on a gnu and gnarling as

it gnashes its teeth? How about God?

Francis Thomson is the only one I ever

heard of - who did some thinking about this.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

September 4, 2019

Thought for today: 

“Her whole life was governed by her desire not to be blamed, so she never did anything and got blamed for that.”  

Gerald Brennan, 

Thoughts in a 

Dry Season, 1979